What this place is
Think of the end of a British pier on a breezy afternoon: the dice table under a striped awning, a fruit machine with a lever that sticks, a pegboard rattling in the arcade. We have rebuilt four of those games as a miniature clay set you can play in your browser.
You play with virtual coins. They come free, they stay on this site, and they are worth nothing anywhere else. There is nothing to buy and no way to turn coins into money or prizes. That is the whole point: the fun of the game, without anything real riding on it.
Why everything looks squashed
Stop-motion is wonderfully honest. You can see the thumbprints, the slightly lumpy edges, the way a character shimmers because it was nudged a millimetre between frames. We wanted the site to feel like that, so the buttons squash when you press them, the pegs wobble when the ball hits, and the dice settle in little steps rather than sliding smoothly.
To be straight about it: the pictures on this site are digital artwork made to look like plasticine, not photographs of a real model set. The thumbprints are drawn on. The love for clay is genuine.
The house rules we built around
- Adults only. The set is for people aged 18 and over, and we ask before anything else happens.
- Odds on the wall. Every game prints its exact average return, and every one is below 100%. Over many rounds the coins drain slowly, just as they would at a real arcade, and we would rather you knew that up front.
- No dressing up. If a round only hands your stake back, we call it level, not a win.
- Nothing to sell you. No coin shop, no adverts, no tracking. Your nickname and coins sit in your own browser.
- Chance is chance. None of the games are skill games, and we say so on each one.
Who runs it
Bigbonk Studio is operated by Bigbonk Studio Limited, a private company limited by shares, registered in England and Wales with company number 17117333. Registered office: 128 Aylsham Road, Norwich NR3 2HD, England.
Bigbonk Studio offers no real-money gambling and is not affiliated with any gambling operator.
Say hello
Spotted a bug, a typo, or a peg that wobbles the wrong way? Write to hello@bigbonkstudiolimited.com, or see the contact page for what to include.